Soper on Ardern

Audrey Young writes:

There is one verdict that stands out among others, however, his scathing assessment of Dame Jacinda Ardern.

He even weaponises her self-deprecating admission that she suffered from “imposter syndrome” against her. 

“She talked a number of occasions about an imposter syndrome, and I think she genuinely felt that because I thought she was an imposter in the job,” he tells the Herald.

He says he really liked her in the beginning and welcomed the idea of a young liberal, woman Prime Minister, but his view changed quickly.

“She didn’t have the depth to be the Prime Minister of the country and was to me, more than any other Prime Minister, the biggest manipulator of the media.”

Barry Soper has covered 12 Prime Ministers, so his views are interesting – whether or not you agree with them.

Soper rates Labour Prime Minister Helen Clark highest of those he calls the “significant Prime Ministers”

The fact he rates Clark the best and Ardern the worst would suggest his assessmentment of Ardern is not related to the fact she is Labour, or that she is a woman.

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